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Dave McC · May 10, 2000, 10:13 AM

Most of my experience was/is with wooden stocks,but any decent smith should be able to mount a stud in a synthetic stock w/o grief.

I'm still a little perplexed about folks' love affair with synthetic stocks. They make sense on rifles with long distance missions, but shotguns don't shift zero under changes in humidity enough to need a more stable material. Must be looks...

May 10, 2000, 10:13 AM	#12
Dave McC Staff In Memoriam Join Date: October 13, 1999 Location: Columbia, Md, USA Posts: 8,811	Most of my experience was/is with wooden stocks,but any decent smith should be able to mount a stud in a synthetic stock w/o grief. I'm still a little perplexed about folks' love affair with synthetic stocks. They make sense on rifles with long distance missions, but shotguns don't shift zero under changes in humidity enough to need a more stable material. Must be looks...